Moans and Groans (2025)
Listening through touch – a series of vibrator sound sculptures.
The sculptures in Moans and Groans explores this fundamental question: How do we listen with our skin? How does nature with its skin?
These questions are explored through a series of sound sculptures that translate recordings of trees’ movements into vibrations in tree branches.
Each sculpture contains a vibrator motor. Using custom electronics, they repurpose technology from sex toys, smartphones, and gamepads to translate audio into vibrations, a tactile language well known by anyone in our modern era through the everyday use of consumer electronics. Viewers are invited to touch the sculptures and feel the vibrations they transmit.
The title refers equally to the activities of the trees recorded – how they react to movements and wind in their surroundings – as well as the activities commonly associated with vibrator motor technology.
The exhibition opens at Notam on April 25, 2025. Read more about the project and Mads Kjeldgaard here.
